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Individuals and organizations alike cannot afford the exposure being risked by not doing proper security updates. Also, proper protection by a reliable (which does not necessarily mean name brand or expensive) antivirus program is a real necessity. The types of attacks seem to be on a steady increase, and it is not likely to become a safer cyberworld very soon.

ZDNet only confirms what I’ve seen myself:

The most common programs under attack include Adobe Flash, Adobe PDF Reader, Apple’s QuickTime, WinZip and RealPlayer. In addition to Microsoft Windows patches, these desktop applications should be updated to the newest version immediately.

OK, this is pretty much off-topic, but I’ve seen way too many people lately with Flash problems lately. If you are having difficulty accessing Facebook or YouTube, this may be your problem.

The one thing all of these problems have in common, at least that I have seen, is that some sort of malware is found on the computer’s hard drive. I don’t mean simple registry entries or cookies, either. I mean trojan .EXEs and .DLLs. It appears that some of these are video related (with names like “movie.exe”), but I suspect the real issue is that they change the registry permissions so that Flash cannot register correctly.

I am going to assume for the sake of argument that you’ve already tried all of the obvious things:

You are logged in as an Administrator.

Your IE security settings are set for “Download Signed ActiveX Controls” and “Run ActiveX Controls and Plug-Ins” to “Prompt”.

You have disabled your antivirus software, especially if it is Norton, but you still get the error.

You have already tried www.adobe.com/go/tn_19166, to include downloading the uninstall utility and manually downloading the zip file (or exe if you are running Firefox).